27 September 2010, 23:10
Women of Kabardino-Balkaria fear of extrajudicial execution of their searched sons
Residents of the city of Baksan, Kabardino-Balkaria, have addressed their letter to President of Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov, Ombudsman Boris Zumakulov and Head of Public Human Rights Centre Valery Khatazhukov. They ask for help that their sons, who are wanted, were not killed, but arrested alive and tried according to Russian laws depending on the degree of their guilt.
The statement signed by F. Dyshekova, F. Guketlova, G. Lampezheva, S. Argashokova, L. Kochkarova and A. Gendugova runs that their sons "for various reasons, related to one common feature, were forced to leave their homes and hide from law enforcement bodies."
It follows from the document that "the common feature" for all the fugitives is "their pursuit by power structures, which do everything that our children fled to forests and became outlaws." According to the authors, militiamen are driving young men into the ranks of the underground, "and then hung articles of the Criminal Code on them and kill them like animals."
"We do not want our children to be assassinated, like many others, and then shown on TV as an outcome of another successful special operation," the mothers say. According to the women, "if the guilt of their sons of committing crimes is established by the court, let them bear their punishments according to the law."
The letter was sent to appropriate bodies.
Author: Luiza Orazaeva Source: CK correspondent
